{"id":1881,"date":"2012-04-04T22:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2012-04-04T22:02:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T03:02:12","slug":"lucky-star-and-wed-group-lesson-night-at-pine-dell-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/lucky-star-and-wed-group-lesson-night-at-pine-dell-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Star and Wed Group Lesson Night at Pine Dell Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucky Star is enrolled in Wednesday night group lesson with Karen Moulis at Pine Dell Farm<\/a>. Group lessons are great experience for horses and people too.\u00a0 For one thing, horses get used to other horses zipping around going all directions.\u00a0 When Lucky Star and I go into the show ring, he’ll think it’s pretty tame compared to a group lesson.<\/p>\n

Lucky Star keeps getting better and better every time I ride him.\u00a0 He had all the impulsion I wanted tonight.\u00a0 He did everything asked of him and he was one tired little pony when it was all over. I’m so grateful to Jenny and Tony Vaught for his training.<\/p>\n

We had quite a great ground game where all the people walked around the arena, sending their horses around them at a trot.\u00a0 People walked forward while horses circled their humans.\u00a0 It was quite an adventure for Lucky Star to maintain his gait.\u00a0 When we were done, he was sweating.\u00a0 It took a lot of effort for him to understand, “Do Not Stop”.<\/p>\n

We rode.\u00a0 The next game was musical barrels. This was a little different from musical chairs. Everyone has a barrel and the barrel has a treat on it.\u00a0 Horses really really like this game.<\/p>\n

Our next game was tag. We all carry horseman sticks…carrot sticks, etc.\u00a0 One person is “it” and they have to tag someone on their thigh.\u00a0 Sadly, there was a lot of cheating going on.\u00a0 People tried to pretend they weren’t “it”.\u00a0 People blocking\u00a0 a horse so “it” could tag their rider.\u00a0 People “it” sneaking up on you.\u00a0 Oh the indignity.\u00a0 Lucky Star had enough impulsion that when I got tagged as it, I could actually catch a rider and tag them.\u00a0 Oh he’s getting better at moving forward off my leg.<\/p>\n

He’s so\u00a0 much fun to ride.\u00a0 His body stays squarely underneath my body.\u00a0 He is short and cute!<\/p>\n

Remember, he’ll probably be for sale after I ride him at the World Celebration.\u00a0 He belongs to Teresa and Junior Osborn.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow is our first trail ride at James A Reed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lucky Star is enrolled in Wednesday night group lesson with Karen Moulis at Pine Dell Farm. Group lessons are great experience for horses and people too.\u00a0 For one thing, horses get used to other horses zipping around going all directions.\u00a0 When Lucky Star and I go into the show ring, he’ll think it’s pretty tame compared to a group lesson. Lucky Star keeps getting better and better every time I ride him.\u00a0 He had all the impulsion I wanted tonight.\u00a0 He did everything asked of him and he was one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-country-franks-lucky-star","category-missouri-fox-trotter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mofoxtrot.com\/viewpoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}